❝That morning shall surely come one day, after this night of such deep darkness. We shall keep walking on the roads, carrying every hope within our hearts.❞
Sahir Ludhianvi, born Abdul Hayee, was one of the greatest Urdu poets and Hindi film lyricists. A Progressive Writers' Movement member, his poetry combined romantic lyricism with sharp social critique. His verses for films like Pyaasa and Kabhi Kabhi remain timeless classics of Hindi cinema.
Born: Ludhiana, Punjab, British India · Era: 1921–1980 · Specialty: Film Lyrics, Nazm, Progressive Poetry
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About Nazm Shayari
Nazm is a Hindi-Urdu poetic form that tells a single, continuous story or idea from start to finish — unlike the ghazal's independent couplets. Drawing on Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Allama Iqbal, Gulzar, and Sahir Ludhianvi, this collection rewards a slower, more attentive read.
❝I am a poet of a moment or two, A moment or two is my story, A moment or two is my existence, A moment or two is my youth. Before me, how many poets came, Came and then went away, Some left with sighs on their lips, Some sang their songs and went on their way.❞
❝What is life but an offering of one's own soul and breath, None will understand if you try to explain until death. Just keep on living and keep on smiling along the way, This itself is the story of life throughout the day.❞
❝Come, let us be strangers to each other once more, Let me hold no hope of you, let you see no faith from my core. Do not swear to understand my pain today, Have no intention to give me your grief's sway.❞
❝I am a poet of moments two or three, But this pain belongs to years that have been. On paper I will write out everything, But whose wound is this that I am bearing.❞
❝Sometimes a thought crosses my heart, that you were made for me alone. Before this, you lived among the stars somewhere, you were called to earth for me.❞
❝My longing rises to my lips as a prayer, O God, may my life be like a candle's flame, may the world's darkness be dispelled by my breath, may my glow bring light to every place.❞
❝Better than the whole world is our Hindustan, we are its nightingales, this is our garden, if we are in foreign lands, our heart stays in the homeland, know us to be there too, wherever our heart is.❞
❝We shall see, certainly we too shall see, that promised day, which is written on eternity's tablet, when these towering mountains of tyranny and cruelty will blow away like tufts of cotton.❞
❝From the grapes of tender feelings I have brought today this wine, beloved, with my own hands I shall pour you the cup today, let me first offer it to you, then the world shall receive its blessing, before all others, my tavern of wine welcomes you first.❞
❝This leprous daybreak, this dawn mauled by night, this is not that dawn for which we had waited, this is not that dawn with the longing for which, friends had set out, believing we'd find it somewhere.❞
❝Beyond the stars there are yet more worlds, there are yet more trials of love to face, these skies are not empty of life, here there are hundreds more caravans still to come.❞
❝Some of my belongings still lie with you, some rain-soaked days of the monsoon are kept there, and a night wrapped inside one of my letters lies there too, extinguish that night, return to me my things.❞
❝Sometimes a thought crosses my mind, that had my life passed in the soft shade of your tresses, it might have flourished, might have bloomed green, rather than this darkness that is my life's destiny.❞